Ansys is partnering with Supermicro and NVIDIA to provide turnkey hardware solutions that significantly enhance the speed of Ansys multiphysics simulation solutions.
By combining hardware and software, Ansys customers can solve more extensive and complex models up to 1,600 times faster. Using Supermicro and NVIDIA technology, Ansys solutions accelerate time-to-market and enable comprehensive design exploration across various applications, such as automotive crash testing, aerospace gas turbine engines, 5G/6G antennas, and biopharmaceutical development.
Effective multiphysics simulation requires integrating different physics solvers with diverse hardware options, each offering distinct performance advantages. However, determining the right hardware configuration for multiphysics simulation can be challenging and can greatly affect performance, cost, and productivity. Turnkey, customised hardware solutions with central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), interconnects, and cooling modules enable engineers to perform highly accurate simulations more efficiently.
Collaborative testing between Ansys and Supermicro found that replicating the performance of Ansys Fluent and Ansys Rocky on a single NVIDIA GPU would require 1,500 and 480 CPU cores, respectively. Ansys Perceive EM running on one NVIDIA GPU matches the performance of over 1,000,000 CPU cores. Additionally, the tests revealed the following performance improvements:
- Ansys optiSLang AI+: 1,600x speed-up
- Ansys Fluent: 24x speed-up
- Ansys Mechanical: 6x speed-up
- Ansys HFSS: 11x speed-up
- Ansys Perceive EM: 53x speed-up
- Ansys Rocky: 17x speed-up
- Ansys LS-DYNA: 4x speed-up
These enhancements were achieved by incorporating or substituting CPU cores and GPUs with NVIDIA technology, including NVIDIA H100 GPUs, NVIDIA L40S GPUs, and the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip.
“The breadth and depth of the Ansys multiphysics portfolio requires a thoughtful approach to compute infrastructure with GPUs,” said Vik Malyala, President and Managing Director, EMEA; SVP, Technology & AI, Supermicro. “We are closely working with Ansys and NVIDIA with the broadest GPU and CPU systems offering (Hyper/CloudDC, scalable GPU systems: 4U-10U, and others) to accelerate simulations, eliminate guesswork, and improve customer deployment time worldwide.”
With NVIDIA technology and Supermicro’s energy-efficient server technology, engineers can lower overhead costs and energy consumption by using fewer servers for the same workload.
“Supermicro provides exceptional architecture for Ansys solutions, reducing constraints on the number, size, and complexity of simulation models,” said Shane Emswiler, Senior Vice President of Products at Ansys. “We remain committed to working with NVIDIA to migrate our solutions currently supported on Hopper chips to Blackwell. By offering advanced, customised configurations with Blackwell and Hopper superchips, our customers’ projects can truly span the full range of physics, from fluids to electronics and structures.”
“The synergy between Ansys and NVIDIA is propelling us into a new era of technological innovation,” concluded Dion Harris, Director of data centre product solutions at NVIDIA. “Ansys simulation solutions play a key role in the development of our cutting-edge AI superchips, while NVIDIA’s accelerated data centre AI and Digital Twin platforms empower Ansys to push the boundaries of simulation performance. Together, we’re unlocking deeper insights and paving the way for groundbreaking advancements that will shape the future of engineering and AI.”
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